Microsoft faces angry customers
Many university computing managers remain unwilling to switch from Microsoft applications to Lotus or Corel software, though a JISC technology applications subcommittee report has said the sector...
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A high-tech software system pioneered by the University of St Andrews that enables academics with no special computer skills to manage groups of students and learning resources is to be extended to...
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Broadening minds
The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association is to award a travel bursary to promote closer links between its members in British departments and abroad. The object of the award of...
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Exeter goes the distance with micro payments
The University of Exeter has developed new software that allows electronic cash payments over the internet for "pay as you go" distance-learning courses. The system, developed by David Cannon from...
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Blaming prejudice on the group could be a cop-out
Recognising institutional racism is only the first small step in trying to eradicate it, argues John Fernandes The Stephen Lawrence inquiry was hailed as "radical", "momentous", "the new millennium...
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Holding on to a vision broader than Scotland
With less than a week to go before the elections, Scotland's higher education institutions have apparently decided to welcome devolution with open arms, queuing up to offer their expertise to the new...
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Set right on rights
Homi Bhabha ("Hybrid Bhabha", THES, March 19) did not deliver an objectionable lecture to a crowd of Amnesty activists. He was giving one of the 1999 Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Our annual series...
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Moonlighting muddle
Your article "The private consultancy work dilemma", (THES, April 23) about payments to Oxford lecturers in management studies is inaccurate. In certain cases, lecturers may be paid Pounds 15,000...
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Leak reveals quality 'A' team
THES reporters examine the latest plans from the Quality Assurance Agency. External examiners Quality chiefs are preparing to recruit an army of "academic reviewers" to check whether external...
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Pluses and minuses
The debate about league tables is critical. It is almost, but not quite, correct to argue that "what counts cannot always be tabulated" (THES, April 23). The vital word "easily" ought to be added at...
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Pluses and minuses
Hooray for the egalitarianism of The THES in compiling the list of "Top institutions in 70 subjects" (THES, April 23), so that the academic world realises that higher education colleges can exceed...
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Pluses and minuses
I realise that tables are meant only as snapshots, nevertheless, omissions can mislead. In the research funding league poster (THES, April 23), a high placing was recorded for the "University of...
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Pluses and minuses
On the same day that you carried league tables for universities, you published a report showing that higher education is to be left out of the "radical reform" of post-compulsory education (THES,...
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Culture clash on the way to work
David Blunkett's proposals ("Make work part of study, THES, April 23) that humanities students should undertake work experience and a module "related to enterprise, work and the potential for...
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Culture clash on the way to work
Having read David Blunkett's article, I must comment on a number of points. I do so on the basis of many years' experience working with and advising undergraduates on both vocational and academic...